Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 25 20
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 -11
Contract jobs citing Azure 99 15 40
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 12.48% 5.08% 9.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.65% 18.29% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 12 34
10th Percentile £325 £481 £188
25th Percentile £417 £492 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £529 £592
Median % change year-on-year -8.27% -10.61% +1.76%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £679
90th Percentile £688 £729 £1,038
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.81% -2.25% -9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 323 82 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 40.73% 27.80% 26.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 54 90
10th Percentile £312 £366 £348
25th Percentile £400 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £556
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -9.09% +1.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £607
90th Percentile £610 £693 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - - £18.88
Median hourly rate - - £19.50
75th Percentile - - £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £45.00 £41.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +9.76% +105.00% -20.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +6 95 £485 -8.27% 29
Doncaster - 3 £413 - 7
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (7.07%) Confluence
2 3 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.02%) CICS
3 2 (2.02%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.02%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.01%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.01%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.01%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.01%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 69 (69.70%) AWS
2 60 (60.61%) GCP
3 14 (14.14%) OpenShift
4 12 (12.12%) Entra ID
5 11 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (10.10%) GitHub
7 8 (8.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (7.07%) Power Platform
8 7 (7.07%) SaaS
9 5 (5.05%) Azure AKS
10 4 (4.04%) Akamai
11 3 (3.03%) Cloudflare
11 3 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (3.03%) OneDrive
12 2 (2.02%) AWS KMS
12 2 (2.02%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (2.02%) ChatGPT
12 2 (2.02%) Collibra
12 2 (2.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.15%) Firewall
2 8 (8.08%) DNS
3 6 (6.06%) TCP/IP
4 5 (5.05%) VPN
5 4 (4.04%) HTTP
5 4 (4.04%) Kerberos
6 3 (3.03%) HTTPS
7 2 (2.02%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (2.02%) iSCSI
7 2 (2.02%) LAN
7 2 (2.02%) NAS
7 2 (2.02%) Network Security
7 2 (2.02%) SAN
7 2 (2.02%) SSL
7 2 (2.02%) VSAN
7 2 (2.02%) WAN
8 1 (1.01%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.01%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (1.01%) FCoE
8 1 (1.01%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.15%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.07%) Power BI
2 7 (7.07%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.06%) MySQL
4 5 (5.05%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.05%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.04%) Metadata
6 3 (3.03%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.02%) DataStage
7 2 (2.02%) DB2
8 1 (1.01%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.01%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.01%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.01%) Redis
8 1 (1.01%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.01%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (28.28%) Jenkins
2 23 (23.23%) JIRA
3 18 (18.18%) GitLab
4 12 (12.12%) Postman
4 12 (12.12%) Selenium
5 9 (9.09%) Git
6 8 (8.08%) Cucumber
6 8 (8.08%) REST Assured
7 7 (7.07%) SoapUI
8 5 (5.05%) TestRail
9 3 (3.03%) CircleCI
9 3 (3.03%) JUnit
10 2 (2.02%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (2.02%) TestNG
10 2 (2.02%) Zephyr
11 1 (1.01%) Artifactory
11 1 (1.01%) Maven
11 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (1.01%) Travis CI
11 1 (1.01%) WebDriver
General
1 44 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 23 (23.23%) Finance
3 20 (20.20%) Banking
4 7 (7.07%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.05%) Law
5 5 (5.05%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.02%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.02%) Police
6 2 (2.02%) Private Banking
7 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.01%) Legal
7 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.01%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (12.12%) Architect
1 12 (12.12%) Developer
1 12 (12.12%) Lead
2 9 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (8.08%) Analyst
4 6 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (6.06%) Test Automation Engineer
4 6 (6.06%) Test Engineer
5 5 (5.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 5 (5.05%) Consultant
5 5 (5.05%) Test Analyst
6 4 (4.04%) Automation Test Lead
6 4 (4.04%) Product Owner
6 4 (4.04%) Senior
6 4 (4.04%) Test Leader
7 3 (3.03%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (3.03%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (3.03%) Lead Test Engineer
7 3 (3.03%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.03%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.18%) REST
2 17 (17.17%) LDAP
3 12 (12.12%) OpenID
4 9 (9.09%) SailPoint
5 7 (7.07%) .NET
6 6 (6.06%) Middleware
6 6 (6.06%) OAuth
6 6 (6.06%) Regular Expression
7 5 (5.05%) Hugging Face
7 5 (5.05%) OpenCV
7 5 (5.05%) PyTorch
7 5 (5.05%) SAML
7 5 (5.05%) SpaCy
7 5 (5.05%) TensorFlow
8 4 (4.04%) JSON
8 4 (4.04%) Kafka
8 4 (4.04%) RESTful
8 4 (4.04%) XML
9 3 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (2.02%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (10.10%) Onboarding
3 9 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.06%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.04%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.03%) IoT
6 3 (3.03%) Replication
6 3 (3.03%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.02%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.02%) Clustering
7 2 (2.02%) Mainframe
7 2 (2.02%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.01%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.01%) FMCG
8 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.01%) NHS
8 1 (1.01%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.12%) Linux
2 9 (9.09%) Windows
3 4 (4.04%) Unix
4 2 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.02%) Solaris
4 2 (2.02%) VMS
4 2 (2.02%) zOS
5 1 (1.01%) CentOS
5 1 (1.01%) MVS
5 1 (1.01%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.01%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (48.48%) DevOps
2 46 (46.46%) CI/CD
3 27 (27.27%) Agile
4 19 (19.19%) Containerisation
5 17 (17.17%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (17.17%) Roadmaps
6 16 (16.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (15.15%) Migration
7 15 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (15.15%) Test Automation
8 14 (14.14%) API Testing
8 14 (14.14%) DevSecOps
8 14 (14.14%) Identity Access Management
9 13 (13.13%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (13.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (11.11%) Mentoring
11 10 (10.10%) ETL
11 10 (10.10%) Microservices
12 9 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
12 9 (9.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 31 (31.31%) Python
2 25 (25.25%) Java
3 24 (24.24%) SQL
4 8 (8.08%) Bash
5 7 (7.07%) PowerShell
6 6 (6.06%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.06%) PHP
7 4 (4.04%) Groovy
8 2 (2.02%) C#
8 2 (2.02%) Go
8 2 (2.02%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.02%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.01%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (8.08%) ISTQB
2 7 (7.07%) CISM
2 7 (7.07%) CISSP
3 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (4.04%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.03%) CEH
4 3 (3.03%) GIAC
4 3 (3.03%) GWAPT
4 3 (3.03%) SAP Certification
5 2 (2.02%) Degree
6 1 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.01%) CCA
6 1 (1.01%) CCSK
6 1 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.01%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.11%) QA
2 7 (7.07%) GDPR
3 6 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.06%) PCI DSS
4 5 (5.05%) NIST
5 4 (4.04%) SLA
6 1 (1.01%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.01%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.01%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (17.17%) Docker
2 10 (10.10%) Active Directory
3 6 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (5.05%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.03%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.03%) KVM
6 2 (2.02%) NFS
6 2 (2.02%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.02%) vSphere
7 1 (1.01%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (1.01%) Ceph
7 1 (1.01%) QEMU
7 1 (1.01%) Snort
7 1 (1.01%) SRDF
7 1 (1.01%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.01%) Xen
7 1 (1.01%) XenApp
7 1 (1.01%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 35 (35.35%) Kubernetes
2 25 (25.25%) Terraform
3 21 (21.21%) Ansible
4 8 (8.08%) Grafana
5 4 (4.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (4.04%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.02%) Argo
6 2 (2.02%) CSIRT
6 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.02%) Puppet
6 2 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.01%) Kibana
7 1 (1.01%) logstash
7 1 (1.01%) Podman
7 1 (1.01%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.01%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.14%) F5
2 14 (14.14%) Google
3 10 (10.10%) Oracle
3 10 (10.10%) ServiceNow
4 6 (6.06%) Splunk
4 6 (6.06%) VMware
5 5 (5.05%) BeyondTrust
5 5 (5.05%) Cisco
5 5 (5.05%) CyberArk
5 5 (5.05%) Thycotic
6 4 (4.04%) Imperva
6 4 (4.04%) NetApp
6 4 (4.04%) SAP
7 3 (3.03%) AppDynamics
7 3 (3.03%) EMC
7 3 (3.03%) MuleSoft
8 2 (2.02%) Delphix
8 2 (2.02%) Informatica
8 2 (2.02%) OpenAI